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Welcome to the Business Service Management Blog, where you can read the perspectives from BSM experts. This Blog provides insights into the BSM solution, as well as technical details about specific IBM products.

Introduction The IBM® Tivoli® Monitoring for Virtual Environments product, also known as IBM SmartCloud Monitoring and previously known as IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Virtual Servers, includes a group of Tivoli products you can use for identifying and resolving virtual environment availability and performance issues. This product includes the Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machines agent, VMware VI agent, Virtual Environments Dashboard (new), Virtual Environments Performance and Capacity Management Reports (new) and the Capacity Planner for Virtual... [More]

Introduction IBM® Tivoli® Composite Application Manager (ITCAM) offers several solutions, including ITCAM for Application Diagnostics. You can use this solution to monitor application servers, for example, WebSphere® application server. Because Tivoli Business Service Manager (TBSM) GUIs are WebSphere based, you can monitor your server performance, for example, heap usage, memory usage, and so on. This document describes how to install and configure ITCAM for Application Diagnostics against your IBM Tivoli Integrated Portal and TBSM WebSphere... [More]

Introduction IBM® Tivoli® Composite Application Manager (ITCAM) offers several solutions. Robotic Response Time (RRT) is one of these solutions and can be used in multiple ways. One primary way of using this product is to monitor your in-house solutions for Response Time and Availability issues. Typically, you want to see a significant amount of Availability (green indicators) and quick Response Times for your applications, but when issues come up, you want to be able to see the issue or have an event/Situation produced to notify someone of the... [More]

IBM System z runs your core business services with different business applications is very complex. This document introduces and shows you how to develop user-specific reports for z/OS objects using the IBM® Tivoli® Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM) product. These include DB2 Z, CICS,IMS,MQ Z, and four sample reports from the sysplex view and business service views. Click here to download the paper.